NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.

Faith without works is dead. So we are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.
What works? The works of God. The fruit of righteousness manifest in temples made without hands, in whom the Holy Spirit dwells. New creatures in Christ. Earthen vessels purged from an evil conscience by the sprinkling of the Blood.
BEHOLD the Lamb of God WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD!
TO AS MANY AS HAVE RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE THE POWER TO BECOME
THE SONS OF GOD.  NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER,
BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.

Born again by the Spirit of God. Love, joy, peace, patience, holiness, brotherly kindness, Why? Because the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
The righteousness of God in Christ, in those who walk after the Spirit, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, "crucifying the deeds of the flesh" by taking up our cross daily, "making no provision to fulfil the lusts thereof". Why? To offer our bodies as a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable to God.
So we can come boldly before the throne of grace, without shame, and obtain help in time of need.

 "I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES TO THE HILL OF THE LORD
FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP.  (Psalm 122)

Justified by faith in Jesus Christ, we have peace with God.
Because "truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ."

ADD TO YOUR FAITH VIRTUE...

“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”

‭‭(2 Peter‬ ‭1:3-11‬ ‭KJV‬‬)

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